Retouch lady with luxurious colors

219Retouchlady80x80 In this tutorial I will show you how to retouch a lady with light and luxurious colors

 

 

Step 1: Before getting started, we need an image to work with. You can use the image below

219Retouchlady1a

First we should adjust its colors for best result by going to Image>Adjustments>Color Balance and use the following settings:

219Retouchlady1

219Retouchlady2

219Retouchlady3

After this step we'll get:

219Retouchlady3b

Step 2: Brighten the image a bit by going to Image>Adjustments>Curves. Click on the straight line and move the dots up a little to make the image brighter

219Retouchlady4

Simple but effective, right?

219Retouchlady5

Step 3: Now we should bring a "soft light" for the image. Press Ctrl-J to duplicate this layer and go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate to turn this layer into black & white

219Retouchlady5b

Step 4: Blur this layer a bit by going to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and use these settings:

219Retouchlady5c

Step 5: Change the Blending mode of this layer to Soft Light. As you notice, the image's contrast and brightness increase a lot!

219Retouchlady6

Step 6: Merge down this layer by pressing Ctrl-E. We should make her skin smoother by going to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur with these settings:

219Retouchlady7

Maybe you can not notice this subtle change if not zoom it in (View>Zoom In). And below is the result of this tutorial:

219Retouchlady8

Thanks for reading this tutorial, I hope you learned something new!



Reddit!Del.icio.us!Facebook!Slashdot!Netscape!Technorati!StumbleUpon!Newsvine!Furl!Yahoo!Ma.gnolia!
Comments
german 10-01-2008
Very Good, Thanks
paresh 10-02-2008
Very nice !......
maxine 11-07-2008
nice effect. thanks
rajesh 11-22-2008
it ok
jhen 11-24-2008
uhm, simple and nice
tulu 11-30-2008
You get the same effect with a dark layer set to "soft light"
Write comment
Name:
Due to spam comments will be reviewed before being published

DOWNLOAD

Free Icons